"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

-- Michel de Montaigne

#Confidence Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Love Yourself Quotes

“...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers”
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”

Source : "Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory". Book by Christopher Bigsby, 2006.
“As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.”
“The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.”
“...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.”
“There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.”
“Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.”

Source : Aryn Kyle (2010). “Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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